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Meyer Sound Labs
X-10 is one monster of a speaker. John Meyer has been designing and building speakers about as long as you've been alive. Waaaay back, he did designs for McCune Sound and A&M Records. In 1973-1974, he was my loudspeaker design teacher in Switzerland (l'Institut de Haut Etudes Musicales - Institute for Advanced Musical Studies), while he and John Curl (audio amplifier design engineer for Mark Levinson and Parasound) were collaborating on the design of equipment for the new Montreux Casino and performance venue, home of the Montreux Jazz Festival. He taught me darn near everything I know about speaker design. The guy knows his stuff! After the school closed and the casino project ended, he went back to California and started Meyer Sound Labs. It's kinda funny that John Curl owned a pair of Magnapan panels, and decided to leave them in Montreux when he left, after hearing the prototype that John Meyer produced. That prototype turned into the J-MC (for Meyer/Curl) and the JM-3, if I remember correctly.
He's never produced a "pretty" speaker, just awesome sounding ones, and built like a freakin' tank.
Regarding the Revel speakers, that are also on the list, I've never heard them, but I read a lot about them. In the course of researching them earlier this year, it turns out that they're part of Harman International, and their official address is 8500 Balboa in Northridge, California. As soon as I saw that address, I thought "that's JBL's address!". Oddly enough, there's a well-known jazz club just down the street from there. Waynard knows the place, I'm sure.
Edit: If anyone knows the whereabouts of Bob Minor, who was also in Montreux at the time, let me know. He taught me a lot of what I know about sound and acoustical physics, and I've been unable to locate him for decades. Thanks!
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